Writers of color are often told they must write for the "universal human," says poet Kima Jones. She explains how many of them take to social media to find their place among a different audience.

Poets.org, which publishes a daily poem as part of its series Poem-a-Day, has seen its readerships for both the website and its daily poems grow every year since 2013, said Jennifer Benka ...

These poets of color have addressed the erasure of people of color’s narratives, the reclamation of these narratives, and further, the liberation that poetry can bring for people of color. Luna, who ...

Mary Ruefle's careful, measured sentences sound as if they were written by a thousand-year-old person who is still genuinely curious about the world. All of it. Trees. Crumbs. Doors. The all ...

Sanchez finally recognized the poem as the expression of the love his father never expressed aloud or with hugs. He included “To Trino” in “Poems by Father and Son,” his 1991 anthology of ...

In the blink of an eye the land bloomed with a spectrum of brilliant color where before it was all greens and earth tones.. It was the sudden awakening of a new aesthetic; our “shrew-like ...

A recent essay by the poet Bob Hicok, “The Promise of American Poetry,” suggests that we might do so, as it seems to celebrate the increasing prominence of writers of color in American poetry ...